The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation, the cave was completely sealed by cold-period sediments, which prevented access until ...
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Rock Art Conservation and Geotourism: A practical example from Foum Chenna engravings site, Morocco [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2019 The rock engravings, the subject of this article, are artistic representations made by people from cultural communities who no longer exist. The rock art was a way of expressing their thoughts, culture and beliefs, before the invention of writing.
Mohamed Abioui +4 more
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Rock Engravings and Sculptures of North Guwahati, Assam
Ancient Asia, 2016 Evidences of rock engravings and sculptures, in Assam, are predominantly found to occur in the vicinity of the temples. Incidence of images of Gods and Goddesses, faunal and floral motif are invariably more.
Dwipen Bezbaruah, Geetanjali Devi
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A Geomorfologia e a datação de gravuras de Foz Côa. Metodologia e desenvolvimento de um caso de investigação científica [PDF]
Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 1997 THE GEOMORPHOLOGY AND THE DATING OF THE ENGRAVINGS OF FOZ CÔA - METHODOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CASE - Several alternative interpretations of the age of the engravings at Foz Côa are presented. One derivation is based on the climatic
Fernando Rebelo, A. M. Rochete Cordeiro
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Recognizing technique variation in rock engravings: ArchCUT3-D for micromorphological analysis
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Ancient rock engravings evoke the interest of archeologists and art historians as an important remnant of human cultures. Traditionally, engraved images are studied based on iconography, iconology, and stylistic characteristics, with little emphasis on ...
Lena Dubinsky, Marcelo David, L. Grosman
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Dynamically controllable plasmonic tweezers using C-shaped nano-engravings.
Applied Physics Letters, 2022 A near-field optical trapping scheme using plasmonic C-shaped nano-engraving is presented. Utilizing the polarization sensitivity of the C-structure, a mechanism is proposed for dynamically controlling the electric field, the associated trapping force ...
M. Zaman, L. Hesselink
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Vertebrate zoology, 2021 This paper deals with reflections that arose after observing prehistoric rock engravings at different locations in Namibia. These observations stimulated comparative considerations with focus on southern Africa and central Europe.
U. Zeller, T. Göttert
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Rock art of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian Peninsula. From El Cogul to Kyoto [PDF]
Catalan Historical Review, 2013 Roca dels Moros in El Cogul is the first set of prehistoric paintings documented in Catalonia, and since its discovery in 1908 it has been a referent in prehistoric art on the Iberian Peninsula.
Gemma Hernández, Mauro S. Hernández
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The Image of the City by Pavel Shpilevsky and Władysław Syrokomla: Verbal vs visual
Urbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda, 2023 The article deals with the famous works of two natives of Belarus in the middle of the 19th century, Władysław Syrokomla and Pavel Shpilevsky. Their books are among the first historical and ethnographic works about Belarus.
Olga Bazhenova
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Engraved images of the Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) cave, Bashkortostan, South Ural [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 The cave of Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) with wall drawings of the Upper Paleolithic is located in the mountain course of the River Belaya in the Southern Urals, nearby the village of Gadelgareevo, Burzyansky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Kotov V.G.
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